LINUM. 
more pointed sepals, though similar in all else, but only about a foot 
in height at the most, and usually much less. (From the high rocks of 
Parnassus, &c.) 
L. empetrifolium. See under L. carnosulum. 
L. flavum is a herbaceous plant ranging from Germany to Russia, 
well known in all gardens, making a bush of 10 inches.or so, with many 
shoots well clad in ample oval leaves of leathery dark-green, and 
generous at their tips with loose heads of large and brilliant golden 
flowers, that often come a deeper orange from seed. L. campanulatum 
is not to be separated from this ; and very close to it come L. orieniale, 
almost shrubby at the base, instead of herbaceous; L. cariense ; 
L. tauricum, with smaller inferior flowers ; and many another variety : 
while near Sebastopol is found the finest of all, Z. Pallasianum, 
a neat tuffet, close and dense, and not 2 inches high, with an undimi- 
nished glory of golden cups. 
L. hirsutum is a more or less downy, tall, fine Flax from all Southern 
Europe and away to the Levant, on dry grassy hills—a graceful plant 
with large blue flowers, white-eyed. There is a compressed alpine 
form, L. h. olympicum. 
L. humile is like a dwarf but more branchy variety of our own 
common Linseed or Flax of commerce, but with glandless sepals. 
(It is found in the fields of the Levant.) 
L. Kingii follows the habit and the flower, of L. arkansanum. 
L. leucanthum inhabits the most torrid and arid rocks of limestone 
on the holy headland of Sunium, and is a lovely thing with many 
stems of about 6 inches, carrying very large pure-white blossoms. 
L, Lewisit is a fine blue-flowered Flax with specially graceful sprays 
of long-stemmed blue stars, on stalks of a foot or-a yard, but it cannot 
claim to be more than a variety of L. perenne, or L. sibiricum. (North 
America.) 
L. maritimum, from the coasts of Southern Europe, is dwarf in 
habit, only attaining to some 6 or 9 inches, with blossoms of yellow ; 
it is probably not to be separated from L. flavum. 
L. monogynum is a stately and beautiful species from New Zealand, 
with many. fine stems about a foot or more high, set with filmy-fine 
foliage, and forming a neat jungly bush which is covered with large and 
noble white flowers all the summer, most graciously and freely borne. 
In comfortable sheltered sunny corners, in light well-drained deep 
soil, there is no doubt about the hardiness of L. monogynum. 
L. Muellert issan extremely rare suffrutescent species with yellow 
flowers from Corsica and Sardinia. 
L. narbonnense, from: all the Mediterranean region, is about half a 
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